Every year for Halloween, each teaching department comes up with a costume for everyone and then they participate in a costume contest in which prizes are awarded for various things. However, not all teachers love the concept of dressing up and participating in the contest.
History department chair Bo...

Clothes come and go, but a brand always stays. See the behind the scenes of OTA, a school made clothing company and how the members of the organization talk about how they came up with the company and what they do. As a MVHS startup company, they’ve accomplished a lot in a short amount of time. Watch...

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m., the band room was transformed into a small auditorium, with a discussion panel of alumni and parents up in front, ready to talk to current MVHS students about their experiences in art and design.
The individuals behind those tables may have been strangers to t...

[dropcap]S[/dropcap]tudent support groups are hard to find in MVHS, mainly because they are often overshadowed by other activities at school. But recently, a club was made not just for new students, but for all of MVHS’ student body. A club that accepts all, a club that has bonding. But this...

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t the MVHS Welcome Back Dance on Aug. 19, the administration made an announcement was made to the students about dancing inappropriately. Several students were also asked to leave the dance after having received multiple warnings about the way they were dancing. Many MVHS students...

In elementary school, U.S. History teacher Ben Recktenwald would never recite the whole Pledge of Allegiance. He would say, “one nation,” pause, then continue with “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Recktenwald didn’t skip “under God” to make a statement, nor did he think it...

Posters in the MVHS rally court promote the hot cocoa event in the days leading up to it. Photo by Sannidhi Mennon.
On the morning of Oct. 19, freshmen students dressed in their pajamas waited anxiously in line. Link Leaders were gathered in the rally court, handing out hot cocoa to the Class of ...

[dropcap]S[/dropcap]tarting in Aug. of this year, reports and videos of creepy clowns terrorizing people have gone viral across the country. Now, law enforcement, including the Santa Clara Police Department, have started taking measures against the threatening clowns. SCPD's department head attended...

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he cafeteria being built in 2014 was an extensive upgrade to MVHS and largely contributes to its campus environment, but it is only the tip of the renovation iceberg. Principal April Scott explained that MVHS staff have been planning to adding four new rooms to the B building and...

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t's still the same room: the same chairs, the same desks, the same computers. But something feels different. Something is missing.
That is what sophomore Isha Chakraborty felt as she walked along the hallway in front of A111, where she had expected to see the usual coffee sign ...

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]wo Years ago, math teacher Kathleen Collins stood outside her classroom door ushering her freshmen into Geometry. She watched with a smile as her former female students marched over to Scott DeRuiter and Jon Stark's AP Calculus BC class.
In her head, she knew this was the first time there wo...

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he clock hits 12:25 p.m.. Some students have already sprinted out of their classrooms before the bell, while other classrooms burst open at the sound of the bell. Swarms of students drift towards the basketball courts. Crude block letters painted on brightly colored butcher paper...

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